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General Discussion

Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson
7,625 Points

Welcome to the new Treehouse Forum!

We've been thinking about how we want the forum to work for a long time, and while we're only scratching the surface of those plans with this first release, we think we've got a great foundation to build on.

The forum works very similarly to how things functioned on our previous Facebook group at its core, but we're expanding on that functionality here to smooth the rough edges that we've seen with Facebook. The forum index displays a stream of all forum posts. We think that's been a great thing for the community on Facebook, because it helps everyone see where the activity is. Unfortunately, that single stream was hard to filter, so our forum's launching with tags to help you find posts relating to topics that you find most important, and with toggles for listing posts by newest or by most active.

One thing we've wanted for a long time in the forums is the ability to post using Markdown. Posting code in Facebook is a nightmare, and we love posting with Markdown on sites like Github and Stack Overflow, so we're using Markdown as our format for posts in the Treehouse Forum. By every post and comment box there's help for Markdown, so it should be a piece of cake to pick up, but if you ever feel like you'd like more info about using Markdown, definitely shoot our team a message or just ask here on the forum.

The forum is available for posting and commenting to anyone who's currently a member of Treehouse. We're not making it a wide open forum for a few reasons. First off, we want our forum to be the best possible place on the web to talk about the topics that Treehouse covers. Allowing anyone on the web to get involved could certainly help that cause, but it would also open up the typical spam control can of worms. Additionally, every day we focus on creating special experiences for Treehouse members, and we believe that making the forum members only, like the Facebook group was intended to be, will keep the community connected and strong and help us all to continue building each other up on our learning and career journeys.

We're amazingly grateful for everyone's involvement in the Facebook group and for the amazing sense of community you've all built there. We're certainly not closing that group down, but our sincere hope is that everyone will love and begin using the new Treehouse Forum instead. I can't wait to see where we all are after another year of answering questions, giving feedback, and sharing ideas through the forum. Thank you!

30 Answers

Ben Jakuben
STAFF
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

This is very exciting! Great job, dev team!!

Tommy Morgan
STAFF
Tommy Morgan
Treehouse Guest Teacher

And design team. Don't be biased, Ben. ;)

Yayayayay!

Great job team! +1

Nick Pettit
STAFF
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher

And Facebook is down right now, too! My my how the tables have turned...

Brandon Kidd
Brandon Kidd
18,141 Points

Looking forward to some great conversation! FB communities don't do forum interactions justice.

Scott Paterson
Scott Paterson
26,869 Points

Well done Treehouse very proud to be a member.

Deleted User

Yes! Amazing work Treehouse!

Awesome. Glad this finally happened. :)

Dan Gorgone
STAFF
Dan Gorgone
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Woohoo - awesome to see the forum is live!

Deleted User

This is Awesome and the markdown is a nice touch. :)

Travis Loncar
Travis Loncar
8,345 Points

Good stuff, guys and gals.

Patrick Johnson
Patrick Johnson
9,505 Points

This is awesome. Now we can finally post HELP ME posts with legible code snippets! Oh how this has made my day.

Imran Jafri
Imran Jafri
1,524 Points

Just unpaused my subscription to say hi here! ;) would try to be active here .... keep good stuff comin' guys!.

Mike Babb
Mike Babb
7,958 Points

Love it! Great work, guys.

Thanks everyone! So glad you all like this new feature. We'll be adding a lot of features in 2013 :)

Very nice! The forum looks great! Looking forward to being a part of it!

Thank you SO MUCH for adding a forum! I've been having issues posting to Facebook groups for the past several months (always says Unable to Post), and I'm so happy I'll be able to actively participate in conversations again!

I am most likely to consolidate my social happenings within Facebook, however I like this as well. Allowing me to spend more time on the Treehouse site without the distractions of ads, updates, chats, and Treehouse unrelated links...go ADD!

I am very appreciative of the visual growth of Team Treehouse. I'm sure you all are very busy playing which keeps me busy learning.

Thank you Everyone at Team Treehouse!

I've never used Markdown, hope this works after I press Submit :-)

Finally a forum for non- Facebook users. Im looking forward to this new learning tool. Thanks Treehouse team!

Faizal Heesyam
Faizal Heesyam
8,843 Points

cool! now we have a proper place for discussion without distraction on fb.. ^___^

SO happy to finally see this - Facebook got messy quick.

Any chance for categories to help better sort things?

Matt West
Matt West
14,545 Points

Awesome, nice work! :)

Treehouse continues to impress and inspire.

Nice Job! don't forget to add a search form to the forum! ;)

@Mohammad - That's in our next iteration, which is happening in Jan :)

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

GREAT JOB :D Amazing!

Anjali Pasupathy
Anjali Pasupathy
28,883 Points
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I love that I can easily get to the first post on this forum! And I am happy to say that, 3 years later, the features created for this forum are still fantastic!

Gabriel Kartak
Gabriel Kartak
5,399 Points

I wanted to know what the first forum post was. Know I know.

:)